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8/17/24 1:10PM Yankees @ Tigers


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3 minutes ago, holygoat said:

Damn. Torks gotta learn to slide better.

yeah - that one was counter intuitive, you normally slide to the outside of HP because the throw is coming from the field, but Tork should have slid to the inside since the throw was coming from behind HP. On the inside his left hand would have been in. Live and learn.

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2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

yeah - that one was counter intuitive, you normally slide to the outside of HP because the throw is coming from the field, but Tork should have slid to the inside since the throw was coming from behind HP. On the inside his left hand would have been in. Live and learn.

Alex Avila explained that he did slide to the inside, but his hand seemed to not extend because his batting glove got stuck in the dirt, so then he reached to the outside.  It was a weird slide, but it looked that way to me too.  

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7 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Alex Avila explained that he did slide to the inside, but his hand seemed to not extend because his batting glove got stuck in the dirt, so then he reached to the outside.  It was a weird slide, but it looked that way to me too.  

Actually I wrote it backward. He had his RH batting glove in his left hand and he had his right hand extended which missed the plate to the outside. The left hand (the side toward the diamond) got folded under his body. So the was actually too far outside to get the plate with his right hand. So he's safe either if he leads with his left hand or if he slides inside enough to touch with his right.

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